The band's first album in nine years sounds unmistakably contemporary without veering into flavor-of-the-month pandering.
Crush Songs, a collection of lo-fi, half-baked songs, feels contrived, even disingenuous.
It’s a classic case of two wrongs inciting the Right, from a branch that lately can’t seem to make up its mind whether to nominate too many songs or too few.
House Playlist: Karen O, Paul McCartney, Arctic Monkeys, Frankie Rose, & MØ featuring Diplo
by Slant Staff
“XXX 88” is a collaboration between Danish singer Karen Marie Ørsted and producer Diplo.
It helps that the track sounds as quick and clever as Santi herself.
The soundtrack is a structurally rich effort that matches the tone of Spike Jonze’s images.
The film’s construction isn’t groundbreaking but the shrill freakshow of talking heads is revealing.